Fire razes Maiduguri main market, Zulum promises N1bn relief

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Tragedy struck in Maiduguri in the early hours of Sunday morning, February 26, when fire razed large sections of the popular Monday Market, the largest market in Borno State.

The cause of the fire was not immediately known, but eyewitnesses told The PUNCH that it started between 2:30am and 3am.Already, residents are suggesting political causes for the fire, which the Borno state Fire Service struggled to subdue since 3am.

When The PUNCH went around sections of the market, hundreds of traders were scampering off with whatever wares they could save from their shops to avoid losing everything in case the fire spreads. “I lost everything in my five shops,” Abubakar Isa, dealer of second-hand clothes told The PUNCH tearfully, adding, “I cannot immediately estimate the cost of my losses, but I can tell you that it is over N30 million.”Musa Sulaiman had two shops of home decoration items such as rugs and suitcases.

“The two shops were all razed down, and I lost everything,” he told our correspondent in a guttural tone, estimating the cost of his losses at “nothing less than N50 million.” Alhaji Modu Kijimi lost his two shops of empty sacks. He was too emotionally devastated to estimate the cost of his losses.

 

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1b that could have been used to reform the market earlier and tighten the security of lives and property, yet they no do am. Now they are promising 1b. We have to be ashamed of the kind of leaders we elect.

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